History & Criticism

Containing 40 Stories In New Translations By Tatar This Celebration Of The Richness And Dramatic Power Of The Legendary Fables Also Features 150 Illustratio...

The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau Is An Accessible Guide To Reading And Understanding The Works Of Thoreau. Presenting Essays By A Distinguishe...

The Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Rober...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the quintessential American woman, the embodiment of grace, class, loyalty, and wit. Behind her iconic sunglasses, Jackie O ...

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) Lived A Richly Imaginative Life That He Expressed In His Poems. The Whole Harmonium Presents Stevens Within The Living Context O...

Having Engineered The Marriage Of The Governess, Emma Now Turns Her Attention Towards Making A Match For Mr. Elton, The Local Vicar. Emma's One Voice Of Rea...

The bestselling book now revised and updated with new content!Hailed as the most popular and best-loved series of the twentieth century, The Lord of the Rin...

Pt. I Influences On Malthus -- [divine Mandates For Humanity] / King James Bible -- From Concerning The Causes Of The Greatness And Magnificence Of Cities (...

"But the point of Burke's work, and the significance of his achievement, is not that he points out that religion and language affect each other, for this ha...

Jeffrey Burton Russell. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Theology ChristianAngelology & Demonology

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world, neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, effecting even those who don...

from The Bestselling Author Of Earthway Comes A Collection Of Thoughtful And Inspiring Essays On Nature And Life. Together They Light A Path To Genuine Lov...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with...

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'...

The text reprinted here is based on award-winning translator Burton Raffel’s masterful translation of Don Quijote, which is consistent,fluid, and mode...

Collects Forty Short Stories Published Between 1915 And 2015, From Writers That Include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, And Alice Munro That Exemplify Their ...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

Contains 9,000 Alphabetical Entries Including Biographical Information On Authors, Composers And Artists, 2,000 Plot Summaries, Movements In Literature, Lit...

This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18t...

As a teenager during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People’s Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident...

[edited By Carvel Collins].Categories: Literature & Fiction Short Stories & AnthologiesShort Stories

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basi...

Twilight Is Anna Deavere Smith's Stunning New Work Of Documentary Theater In Which She Uses The Verbatim Words Of People Who Experienced The Los Angeles Rio...

Can Poetry Matter? -- The Dilemma Of The Long Poem -- Notes On The New Formalism -- Strong Counsel (robinson Jeffers) -- The Loneliness Of Weldon Kees -- Th...

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence—which is loosely based on the not...

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an...

The First Volume Encompasses His Youth, His Experience In World War I, And His Arrival In Paris. The Letters Reveal A More Complex Person Than Hemingway's T...

A Dialogue Between Two Shepards, Uttered In A Pastoral Show -- Two Songs For An Accession Day Tilt -- Philisides, The Shepard Good And True -- Sing, Neighbo...

This Title Has Been Updated To Reflect The 2016 Mla Update. The Most Trusted Guide For Helping Students Read Critically And Write Carefully.Categories: Lite...

Edited By Zachary Leader. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & Cultural...

... This Treasury Of 'words That Have A Tale To Tell' Has Established Itself As One Of The Great Reference Classics -- The First Port Of Call For Tens Of Th...

Multiculturalism Has Been The Subject Of Cover Stories In Time And Newsweek And Other Newspapers And Magazines Around America. A Leading Literary And Cultur...

In A Sweeping Portrayal Of German Life From World War I To The Early 1970's, Böll, Tells The Story Of The Widow Leni Pfeiffer And Her Son Lev Who Have Beco...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No ...

A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure, in the classic novel accompanied by ess...

This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginati...

Full-color maps and illustrations from every reach of Middle-earth make this an essential guide to exploring Tolkien’s world. Full-color maps and illustra...

The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction repr...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Be...

Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New Yo...

The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after d...

Entertainment Weekly Hails The Secret, Book, And Scone Society Series By New York Times Bestselling Author Ellery Adams As A Love Letter To Reading, And In ...

General Editor, Michael Dobson ; Associate General Editor, Stanley Wells. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 537-539).Categories: Literature & Fict...

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political power. T...

The first Latin American to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican fam...